Mosqueda-Lewis On Her Big Turnover At Notre Dame

January 10, 2012

Since the end of the Notre Dame loss on Saturday one of the hot topics has been what happened during UConn's final offensive possession of regulation with the score tied at 63 and less than 10 seconds to play.

Geno Auriemma mentioned he was certain UConn would win the game at that point, but what resulted was a turnover when Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis threw the ball away with four seconds to play.

Here is how KML described the sequence on Monday:

"Coach had drawn up a play in the timeout, and I hadn’t gone to the right place when I walked onto the floor," she said. "The team just tried to run the play as it was, with Bria Hartley taking my place on the floor.

"I got the ball on the top of the key [from Tiffany Hayes] and Bria came off the screen. She was curling, I passed the ball out [to where Hartley was] and she fell. That’s what happened.

"When you have the chance to help your team win a game by just making a simple pass and you throw it away it hurts. I couldn’t do anything about it then, but I should have just forgotten about it and tried to do more in overtime.”

Here's something to remember about KML. She makes no excuses for anything and doesn't take her talent for granted. She's been very apologetic to her teammates about her performance and UConn fans likely can expect much better down the road from last year's high school player of the year.